Ukraine emphasizes that he will not meet with Russia in Saudi Arabia and defends the US mediating role

The authorities of Ukraine have stressed that during the round of contacts to several bands on Monday in Saudi Arabia, in which the United States and Russia will also participate, Ukrainian representatives will not meet at any time with the Russian negotiating team, highlighting at this point the intermediary role of US envoys.

This was stated by the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, Georgi Tiji, this Friday at a press conference, where he has specified that on his trip to Yeda, kyiv’s envoys will only meet with US representatives, who are planned to talk with the Russians in the framework of efforts to reach a peace agreement, UKRinform collects.

“Today we communicate with the American part, and it is with the Russian part. This model has demonstrated its effectiveness in the past. In 2022 Ukraine concluded the Grain Agreement of the Black Sea, in which the United Nations and Turkey played this role,” said Tiji, which celebrates that “this diplomacy format” can be carried out.

Representatives of the United States, Russia and Ukraine will travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday to keep different meetings to speak separately about the war. Washington and Moscow already met in February to address the crisis in Ukraine but without the presence of kyiv envoys, which generated a certain suspicion for the intentions of both powers.

On March 11, negotiators of Ukraine and the United States were seen in this same format in the Saudi city of Yeda, whose meeting was a proposal to suspend attacks on Russian and Ukrainian energy infrastructure for 30 days, which now the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, seems willing to be willing to comply.